Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-10-26

"A daughter was born yesterday
morning to Mr. and Mrs Geo. Clapper,
First ward.
st. Paul's church choir are rehears-
ing for the choir festival at All Saints
Cathedral, Milwaukee, November 5.
Felt and rubber goods just received
at Jake Koerner's shoe store, also large
stock of all other kinds of winter wear.
Why pay so cents for cotton striped
velveteen when at Trachte & Trayser' 8
you can purchase silk velvet at so cents?
1t leads them all in style, fit and
wear, the Ludlow ladies fine shoes. d.
j. Strauss, agent, Main street, Water
town, Wis.
AT the state grange meeting at Mad
ison, in December, the Hon. J. j. Wood
man, of Paw Paw, Mich, the past master
of the National grange, will be in at
tendance.
ID. j. Bisset, one of the compilers of
the new directory for this city, informs US
that figuring from his standard in such
cases the popula'ian of WATERFOWL now
stands about 10000.
Cards are issued for the marriage Of
VIM. Trachte, of the firm of Trachte &
Trayse., and Miss Emma Hans at Winona,
Mimi, the home of the brides parents,
Thursday, October 81, 1887.
DIR. Edward Johnson is one of the
vce-presidents at the reception in Mil
waukee this evening, to the Irish ENJOYS,
Sir Thomas Grattan Esmonde and Ar
thur O'Connor, members of parliament.
Don't let itslip your mind that Schif
fer q Quentmeyer have in stock the best
tailor-made clothing and overcoats in the
market, and sell them at prices that defy
competition. SCHILLER & QUENTMEYER,
corner Main and Third streets
William Schoppe, University book
store, is in receipt of a splendid line of
Catholic prayer books, in velvet, morocco
and leather bindings; crucifxes, rosary
beads and other Catholic goods. Are
selling at low figures. Call and see them.
Monday night one CT the hardest
freezes occurred ever known in this sec
ton so early in the season, the mercury
falling to within from eight to ten degrees
of zero forming coating of ice on the
river and bearing other wintry appear
| ances.
Winter approaches and should there
not be an effort made TO iDaugurate
course of lectures during the months be-
fore US? Rev. Judson Ellsworth, of Ply
mouth church, Milwaukee, has just or
ganized a course of eight lectures at the
moderate sum of ST for the course.
Couldn't something of the same kind be
done here? What society will be the
first to take this matter in hand?
-Byron 81. Robinson has commenced
suit against VIM. H. Rohr and the six
other members of the board of street COM
missioners OF 1881 for expenses of nursing
| his wife and medical attendance for her,
made necessary blythe injury she received
from the fall of the derrick during the
construction of Main street bridge. The
case will be tried in the Jefferson county
circuit court.
THE is the way in which Hon. Ed
win Hurlbut, at the age OF seventy, an
nounces in his paper, The Oconomcwoc
Free Press, an interesting event: owe
take pleasure in announcing the arrival
Ct our house on the 10Th inst, OF one of
the sweetest, the protest and the best lit
tie girls that ever gladdened an editors
heart 1t tipped the scales at nine
pounds and its happy mother named it
Edwina. Mother and child are doing
we'll, and the editor of The Free Press
still lives"
Under the excellent and economical
management of the state finances by the
Republican party, there has been no state
tax for three years past and none will be
required this year. The usual charges
against heseveral counties for education
al expenses and charges for care of insane
in state hospitals and boys in industrial
schools, are now completed by Secretary
of State Timme. Jefferson county is
charged with $21, 145 66 educational tax
and $3,356.5s charitable and penal tax.
The educational tax of Dodge county is
$29,04913 and its charitable and penal
tax $SS963.
"A family sick with typhoid fever liv-
ing just over the Sixth ward line in the
town Of Emmett, demands the attention of
the authorities. The father, mother and